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When there is no fire to cook food, people are forced to resort to eating and consuming things that can be eating without cooking. This includes things like fruits, certain vegetables, nuts and seeds. In more modern times other packages snacks would also qualify. Certain peoples also eat raw fish and other seafood if it is fresh.

Over the course of human evolutionary history, homo sapien (us) adapted to become an omnivore. That means that we eat can digest and gain nutritional value from both meat and vegetarian food items. This means that our earliest ancestors were picking berries and eating roots without the need for fire.